Economists have begun to embrace the notion, already accepted by the market, that GEDs and High School Diplomas signal similar cognitive abilities, but different non-cognitive abilities. To better understand this phenomenon and its implications, this paper presents a study of an education environment, prison, which provides natural controls for non-cognitive abilities. The study reveals similar...

Abstract Previous research shows that violence is an important factor driving ethnic identification and grievances, but most works explore micro-level effects focus on specific cases have limited external validity. This article looks at the individual-level consequences of civilian victimization in a large sample across Africa. Combining georeferenced survey data from several rounds Afrobaromet...

Abstract. How can FOSS GIS support generative economy processes in small settled communities? The paper answers this question by proposing a toolbox made up of specific open geospatial data that be processed through GIS. These consist maps, accompanied numerical values.The information collected is intended to lay the foundations for an open-access manual procedures creation database. This manua...

Error-tolerant graph matching gathers an important family of problems. These problems aim at finding correspondences between two graphs while integrating error model. In the Graph Edit Distance (GED) problem, insertion/deletion edges/nodes from one to another is explicitly expressed by At opposite, problem commonly referred as “graph matching” does not express such operations. For decades, thes...